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Salary: £31,952
Working pattern: Flexible working, Full-time, Compressed hours
Location: Taunton
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Test Automation Engineer to join our expanding agile development team.
We work in a wide range of technologies including.Net, JavaScript, and Python, deploying our solutions using Azure DevOps to internal infrastructure.
Everything we do is team based. We take Agile seriously; your delivery team will be small but will have the people it needs to get things done - developers, testers, product owner, and a delivery manager - as well as access to infrastructure specialists, UX experts, and business analyst.
Quality is paramount. You and your team will be supported to do excellent work. Everyone reviews code and everyone welcomes feedback.
We offer a great work / life balance. People’s start and end times are built around their own preferences and around a 10am – 2pm team time, where the team is focussed solely on building (no meetings!). The role is office-based for a minimum 4 days a week due to the nature of the work, with the option of 1 day a week working from home.
We are committed to providing part-time options and reasonable accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs.
We’re proud that we’ve created this group by recruiting junior people who share a commitment to professional development and watched them grow with us.
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Hybrid working
This job role can be worked on a hybrid basis, which is an informal, non-contractual, and voluntary arrangement, working between the office in Taunton and remotely within the UK.
For this role, due to the nature of the work, office attendance is expected for 4 days a week.
Job description
As a Test Automation Engineer, you will:
- Work as part of or with multi-disciplinary Agile team(s).
- Design and execute test approaches for small to medium projects using automated and/or manual tests.
- Create and maintain a combination of environmental setup work and/or automation code and/or manual test scripts to ensure user requirements are met.
- Champion quality in your team by mentoring in testing - promote and inspire others to test better.
Person specification
- Knowledge of modern software testing principles and patterns
- Experience of working in an agile software delivery team
- Software development skills and knowledge of C#
- Experience in designing and executing manual and/or automated test approaches
- Champion good practice in quality assurance processes and contribute to improving it in conjunction with others.
- Ability to work with a range of stakeholders across different teams and functions to achieve team goals
- Knowledge of modern development approaches such as Scrum or Kanban
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Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Developing Self and Others
- Working Together
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Knowledge of modern software testing principles and patterns
- Software development skills and knowledge of C#
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £31,952, UK Hydrographic Office contributes £9,256 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
At the UK Hydrographic Office, it's very important to us that our people feel valued.
We offer a huge range of benefits such as training and development, well-being support, flexible/ home-working, a fantastic state of the art building, high spec equipment, and so much more.
See our attached Candidate Information Pack for more details.
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